So the title is pretty apt in describing the past...20 hours?
As I mentioned previously, I went to see the advance screening of Twilight with my close friends (it was actually 3 friends, not 2. My mistake). Anyway, the movie was starting at 10 and we got there at about 8. There weren't many in the line when we got there. As we waited in line, we were getting more and more excited to see something we've been waiting for since the beginning of summer. I thought I'd document what we looked like when we were in line:
Sorry for the blurriness. But you can still see how happy we were BEFORE watching the movie.
Alright, it's ranting time. Overall, I felt this movie was a poor representation of the book. It didn't do it justice at all. It was just unfortunate that we had to wait so long to see something that was, for lack of a better word, a failure. The advertisements for this film were so convincing. I suppose they hired a really good advertiser... Well, graphic design is all smoke and mirrors, at least that's what I've been taught.
The actors for the most part, played a mediocre performance with the exception of a few. When the list of actors were announced during the summer, I was somewhat disappointed.. and that was just by looking at them. I still had one more ounce of hope that their acting abilities would somehow neutralize my misconceptions. Unfortunately, the film just confirmed my doubts. I think I was most upset with Robert Pattison as Edward Cullen. I thought he was good as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter... but, unfortunately not as stellar in Twilight. He barely spoke and his words seemed as if they were being forced from his lips. There wasn't much dialogue between himself and Bella.. probably due to the fact that he couldn't conceal his English accent for long periods of time.
The scenes were often choppy and many parts occurred in places different from the novel. That upset me a bit. Also, the scenes that should have been illustrated beatifully again failed to look that way on the screen and certainly not as beautifully as I pictured in the novel. I know you can't really make it look exactly like it would in the book, but you could at least try. Come on, in the 1970's special effects weren't as up to par as it is now and Star Wars still looks more professional than some of the films we see now. Especially this one. I felt like the viewer couldn't truly believe what was happening. As the film went on, I started lose interest because it was so bad. So much could have been done with this film and it honestly pains me to write this.
I suppose I'll stop on this subject for now or else I'll be in front of my computer forever.
Oh, and to juxtapose the feelings of excitement and happiness, here's another picture I took:
I'm pretty sure that our faces were permanently fixed like that for the whole movie.
My other friend who watched the movie with us. The face he's making in this photo was the face that Robert Pattison had throughout most of the movie.
Alright, onto happier things. When I got home yesterday (I suppose this is the exception to the night of epic fail), two of my pen pals talked to my on msn. One was kind of creepy... but the other one was really, really cool. It's pretty funny because both are 21-year-old males living in Osaka even weirder, both of their names started with "K". So I'll talk about the cool pen pal... I don't want to think about the other one. So, in one of his emails, he was telling me that he was kind of shy and didn't talk much unless he got to knew the person well enough. But on msn, we were talking like we already knew each other pretty well. Not awkward at all. I discovered he can speak French and we were talking to each other in french for a while. I love conversations like that. Hopefully this pen pal won't ditch me... quite a few have already.
Another happy thing! My friend and I made a layered cake this afternoon. We were making it for 2 our friends' birthday get-together tomorrow. We went to the supermarket to pick up a few things and went back to make the cake at her house. It was so awesome. I love how baking makes you so much happier. While the cake baked and cooled, we would just hang out and talk about stuff. After that, we started decorating it. That was pretty much it. Although it may not seem like much, making that cake today was really, really fun. It was definitely a good way to clear our negative images of the Twilight Movie. I really hope our friends like it.
So I thought I'd share what this epic cake looked like:
Before icing the cake. We put strawberry jam between the two layers.~
After a few layers of icing.~
After covering the cake with strawberries.~
Aerial View!~
So yeah, we're going to bring this to our little birthday get-together. I still need to make a card for the two of them. I need to think of something really awesome. I'm pretty excited for tomorrow because I haven't gone downtown in a while. Tomorrow is basically downtown exploration day. We'll have a day pass, so I'm sure we'll definitely explore for as long as possible. I'm pretty sure tomorrow we'll all go cosplay crazy. I also hope I can get some art supplies and try out some stuff for Anime North.
And I think I'll stop here. This entry is getting pretty long as it is.
The End.
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